Death is June -The Top 50 Death Metal Albums of all Time : 10 to 1

Normally I try to limit it to one album per artist. With death metal it tends to unify around certain works, so you might have hundreds of bands trying to be Morbid Angel. This means that some artists are more impactful. They made an impact because of the quality of their work so if they have released abums that are so dominating to the genre that they deserve multiple slots, only two bands got three slot, four other bands took two slots. There is a wide array of sub genre's represented here, granted this is my list so darker more satanic death metal and progressive death metal might out number tech death or grind core. Not al ofthe bands remained death metal bands , but they made a death metal album deserving of this list. If I have reviewed said album then I will include the link to the review.  Ok, it's death metal not quantum mechanics , so here we go into the top 10 death metal albums of all time.




10-Obituary-"the End Complete"1992 



 We have now reached a place where brutality alone will not do. Their 3rd abum finds them with songwriting dialed in to almost perfect.



 



9- Bolt Thrower - "Realm of Chaos" 1989



This album has more groove and hook to the riffs than the others .



 



8-Nocturnus- "the Key" 1990



 Morbid Angel's orignal drummer decided it was time to take Satan into space and made the most under rated death band ever. The keyoards stand out rather than just add texture.



 


7- Sepultura - "Arise" 1991 


 With the album that followed they would step away from death metal, here they just attacked it with a refined thrashing fury. And wrote great songs while they were at it.




 



6-Entombed - "Wolverine Blues"


1993 Why did it beat out Left Hand Path for this spot ? Better songs. "Full of Hell" alone beats that album. Called the beginning of death n roll, perhaps but it is still plenty aggressive.



 



5-Opeth -Black Water Park" - 2001



 Melodic yet capable of darkness and brutality. Deliverence is also a great album, this one just retains the death metal bite.



 



4-Deicide -Deicide" 1990


' Feral and their most evil sounding. Might take the number one spot if I was making a top ten most satanic death metal albums, even diverting into songs about Charles Manson and Evil Dead.


 


3-Cynic -"Focus" -1993

This is what progressive death metal should be like. It has all the shred you might want and still have songs that are not just bookends for guitar solos. Mind blowing


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2-Carcass -"Necroticism Descanting the Insalubrious" 1991


 Having evolved from grind core , they decided to write some fucking songs that would rule, with riffs that command head banging decades later.

 



1-Morbid Angel- "Blessed Are the Sick"

 Not only the best death metal album, but one of the best metal abums ever made period.



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